State Department UAP Cable 4, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, November 5, 2004
UFOlogists of Turkmenistan has gained a positive reputation as a reliable partner for the United States in Turkmenistan to the bemusement of the cable’s author in the build up of civil society organizations within the country. The reputation has become earned because everyone in Turkmenistan, apparently, “is interested in UFOs.”
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UFOlogists of Turkmenistan has gained a positive reputation as a reliable partner for the United States in Turkmenistan to the bemusement of the cable’s author in the build up of civil society organizations within the country. The reputation has become earned because everyone in Turkmenistan, apparently, “is interested in UFOs.”
**Released as part of PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026).** The Department of War published the following primary-source records:
- **State Department UAP Cable 4, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, November 5, 2004** (Department of State, 2004-11-05 · Turkmenistan) — 5 pages.
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*Skeleton import — comprehensive narrative analysis pending. Sources are linked above; OCR-extracted text from the page images is available in the [PURSUE Open Atlas dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/alex-zhang42/ufo-pursue-open-atlas) (CC0).*
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